Photographer in water using Reighard's sub-aquatic camera – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Photographer in water using Reighard's sub-aquatic camera comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Photographer in water using Reighard's sub-aquatic camera
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A photographer stands in the water with a camera built on Reighard's design, an early attempt to record life beneath the surface. Jacob Reighard, a University of Michigan zoologist, worked on fish and other aquatic animals and devised equipment for photographing them underwater. The picture comes from the Bain News Service collection, a New York agency that distributed news photographs, so it likely circulated as press material. The glass negative shows how difficult it was, at the time, to keep a camera working in the water.
| Created / published | 8/9/09. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,760 × 4,198 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5358 |
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